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Craig Mod has a beautiful essay about software and speed but I’m a little sad it’s not easier to link to. It’s good newsletters are allowing great writing to find an audience (and web archives are better than nothing!) but I miss blogs.

Overall, becoming a maintainer of Rouge has been positive but I’m a little sad that with all the focus on other people’s outstanding issues I still haven’t finished my revision of the Clojure lexer :(

The number of outstanding pull requests on the Rouge library that I’m helping to maintain is now below 70! Woohoo! (I don’t remember what it was when I started but it was at least more than 100.)

Here’s a handful of scattered thoughts about the tension between being a father and being free.

I’m a bit sad to discover almost all traces of the venerable Evangelion mailing list have disappeared from the Internet.

Have you wondered to yourself, How do I rebase a contributor’s pull request on a GitHub repository I maintain? Good news, friend!

I spent the last couple of days working on Tenter, a new gem for providing webhooks to GitHub. This evening I wrote a short introduction.

As I keep nodding off at work, I’m thinking that maybe these late night coding sessions are not such a great idea (I do enjoy them tremendously, though).

Version 3.5.0 of Rouge is out the door. It’s still taking all of my free time (which is, unfortunately, keeping me away from Clojure) but it feels good to be giving back to the Ruby community in a small way.

I really hope this find by Joe Cieplinski about duplicate songs in iTunes carries through to the final release of Catalina!

I’m curious what effect (if any) Evangelion streaming worldwide on Netflix will mean. I still think it’s the greatest anime but I saw it when I was 16 and was right in the sweet spot for a show about teenagers saving the world.

It seems kind of broken how difficult it is for me to sign up to a mailing list versus how easy it is for the mailing list owner to sign me up.

I made it through all 100 or so e-mail notifications. Let’s never do that again.

Slowly working through the 100+ e-mail notifications about stale issues in Rouge.

I’ve discovered how to push to other people’s branches on GitHub when they’ve used that branch for a pull request on a repo I maintain. I feel like I can see through the Matrix.

I’m glad Apple Music now shows what your friends are listening to at the top of ‘For You’. Having to scroll down to the bottom all the time wasn’t a great experience.

Awww yiss. Take that, StringScanner.

Ruby’s StringScanner class is a house of cards that keeps collapsing on my head.

Wheee! Managed to reduce the memory usage of syntax highlighting library Rouge in a simple case from 11MB to 2MB!

TFW Lindsay Ellis is in Japan but there’s no way to bump into her in a way that isn’t insanely creepy.